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Heinrich Pette

Born  1887
Died  1964

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German neuropathologist, 1887-1964.

Biography of Heinrich Pette

Heinrich Pette in 1955 was the president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin. At the University of Hamburg the Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology is named in his honour.

Bibliography

  • Die akut entzündlichen Erkrankungen des Nervensystems (Viruskrankheiten, Entmarkungsenzephalomyelitiden, Neuritiden). Leipzig, 1942. 643 pages.
  • Rudolf Janzen:
    Heinrich Pette zum siebzigsten Geburtstag.
    Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, Stuttgart, 1957, 82 2009.
  • Rudolf Janzen:
    Heinrich Pette.
    Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, Stuttgart, 1964, 89: 2480-2482.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.

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